| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| | | Phaedrus. (fl. 1st cent. A.D.) (continued) |
| | | 8712 | | Every one is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example. |
| Book i. Fable 26, 12. |
| 8713 | | Come of it what may, as Sinon said. |
| Book iii. The Prologue, 27. |
| 8714 | | Things are not always what they seem. 1 |
| Book iv. Fable 2, 5. |
| 8715 | | Jupiter has loaded us with a couple of wallets: the one, filled with our own vices, he has placed at our backs; the other, heavy with those of others, he has hung before. 2 |
| Book iv. Fable 10, 1. |
| 8716 | | A mountain was in labour, sending forth dreadful groans, and there was in the region the highest expectation. After all, it brought forth a mouse. 3 |
| Book iv. Fable 23, 1. |
| 8717 | | A fly bit the bare pate of a bald man, who in endeavouring to crush it gave himself a hard slap. Then said the fly jeeringly, “You wanted to revenge the sting of a tiny insect with death; what will you do to yourself, who have added insult to injury?” |
| Book v. Fable 3, 1. |
| 8718 | | “I knew that before you were born.” Let him who would instruct a wiser man consider this as said to himself. |
| Book v. Fable 9, 4. |
| | | Pliny the Elder. (A.D. c. 23–A.D. 79) |
| | | 8719 | | In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment. |
| Natural History. Book i. Dedication, Sect. 22. |
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